Landlady throws out tenant’s property to evict him, gets N50, 000 bail
Landlady
By Moronke Boboye
Ikeja, July 3, 2018(NAN) A landlady, Musli Tiamiyu, broke into her tenant’s apartment and threw out his property in the rain in a bid to
evict him, the prosecution told an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
The 44-year-old trader, who resides at 10, Olorunshola St., Ojodu, a Lagos suburb, is being tried for burglary, damage, stealing and
assault.
Police Prosecutor Innocent Odugbo said the accused claimed that she had given the complainant, Mr Henry Igbokwe, a notice to quit
her house but he refused to leave.
“The accused took laws into her hands and burgled the apartment of the accused and brought out some of his properties when he was
not at home.
“She left the property in the rain and his television set was damaged; the accused could not find his generator, the mobile phone he kept in his room and N200,000 when he returned,” he told the court.
Odugbo alleged that the accused also pushed a police officer who came to arrest her.
According to him, the offences which contravened Sections 174, 280, 308 and 339 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, were
committed on June 13 at the accused’s residence.
The landlady, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Rulinfg on her bail application, the Magistrate, Mrs S. K. Matepo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in
like sum and adjourned the case until July 11. (NAN)
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(Editing by Dele Akinsola)